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I was kind of broke . 'The Girl on the Train' was a last roll of the dice for me as a fiction writer. — Paula Hawkins

It's not even rejection, it's dismissal. — Paula Hawkins

I was right, I knew I was, but it won't do me any good to say it. I enjoy my victory silently; I take pleasure in it almost as much as in his touch. — Paula Hawkins

I feel like myself - the myself I used to be. — Paula Hawkins

I'm starting to see what he must have seen in her. What he must have loved. — Paula Hawkins

On the way back down the road, he passes me in his car, our eyes meet for just a second and he smiles at me. — Paula Hawkins

Life and light will not let me be. — Paula Hawkins

When I write, I imagine places more than people. — Paula Hawkins

Now, I think he might be dead. — Paula Hawkins

dig my fingernails into my palms. — Paula Hawkins

Parents don't care about anything but their children. They are the centre of the universe; they are all that really counts. — Paula Hawkins

I watch him come, I watch him, and I don't move until he's almost upon me, and then I swing. I jam the vicious twist of the corkscrew into his neck. — Paula Hawkins

I need to find something that I must do, something undeniable. — Paula Hawkins

Beware a calm surface - you never know what lies beneath. — Paula Hawkins

I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head. — Paula Hawkins

Some battles aren't worth fighting — Paula Hawkins

The memory doesn't fit with the reality, because I don't remember anger, raging fury. I remember fear. — Paula Hawkins

She's cuckoo, laying her egg in my nest. — Paula Hawkins

I can't do this, I can't just be a wife. — Paula Hawkins

the job itself is utterly beneath me, but then I seem to have become beneath me over the past year or two. I need to reset the scale. — Paula Hawkins

it's possible to miss what you've never had, to mourn for it. — Paula Hawkins

It comes from shared experience, from knowing how it feels to be broken. Hollowness: that I understand. — Paula Hawkins

I felt dizzy, as though I were having an out-of-body experience, as though I were looking out at myself — Paula Hawkins

Then I wait. Times and dates, mostly. Not dates. Days. Monday — Paula Hawkins

I'm not here for you, I couldn't be less interested — Paula Hawkins

house feels like it's shaking, too, the — Paula Hawkins

I'm playing at real life instead of actually living it. — Paula Hawkins

It must take the most incredible self-control, that stillness, that passivity; it must be exhausting. — Paula Hawkins

There's nothing so painful, so corrosive, as suspicion. — Paula Hawkins

I realized I do tragedy better than comedy. — Paula Hawkins

Who was it said that following your heart is a good thing? It is pure egotism, a selfishness to conquer all. — Paula Hawkins

This is what marriage is - safe, warm, comfortable. Tom — Paula Hawkins

The thing about being barren is that you're not allowed to get away from it. — Paula Hawkins

Tom's whole life was constructed on lies - falsehoods and half-truths told to make him look better, stronger, more interesting than he was. — Paula Hawkins

I just listen. Sitting here in the morning, eyes closed — Paula Hawkins

One more day of drinking, perhaps, and then I'll get myself straight tomorrow. — Paula Hawkins

I've been the fool. If he does it with you, he'll do it to you. — Paula Hawkins

Once I've made my mind up, I'm a force to be reckoned with. — Paula Hawkins

I snap the laptop shut and jump to my feet, knocking my — Paula Hawkins

Surely he would call me, wouldn't she? She would know how panicked...how desperate I would be. She's not vindictive like that, is she? — Paula Hawkins

So who do I want to be tomorrow? — Paula Hawkins

I feel about an incident is proportionate not just to the gravity of the situation, but also to the number of people who have witnessed it. — Paula Hawkins

To have my hopes raised and dashed again, it's like cold steel twisting in my gut. — Paula Hawkins

Life is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis.

(This is a reference to an E.E. Cummings poem within the author's work) — Paula Hawkins

Scott the other night: the dream was just my brain picking all that apart. — Paula Hawkins

...that's the point, you can say anything to strangers. But that isn't completely true. You can't just say 'anything'. — Paula Hawkins

It's nice being out early, before the school run, before the commute gets going; the streets are empty and clean, the day full of possibility — Paula Hawkins

Now look what you made me do. — Paula Hawkins

They're what I lost, they're everything I want to be. — Paula Hawkins

He closed his eyes so that he didn't have to watch me choke. — Paula Hawkins

It isn't normal to invade someone's privacy to that degree. It's what is often seen as a form of emotional abuse. — Paula Hawkins

Nobody warned me it would break us. But it did. Or rather, it broke me, and then I broke us. The — Paula Hawkins

Anything was possible. When you hear hooves you look for horses, but you can't discount zebras. — Paula Hawkins

I didn't want to draw attention to her resting place, but I couldn't leave her without remembrance. — Paula Hawkins

I am single and without children. I'm actually one of those people who's just never had a great desire to have kids. — Paula Hawkins

She has no past, no future. She exists purely in the moment. Drunk — Paula Hawkins

Tom said about Scott and Megan came from Anna, and no one knows better than I do that she can't be trusted. — Paula Hawkins

I find writing the darker side, writing tragedy, a lot easier than writing happiness. Happiness is just less psychologically compelling, isn't it? — Paula Hawkins

That's what he always used to say to me. Don't expect me to be sane, Anna. Not with you. — Paula Hawkins

There can be no greater agony, nothing can be more painful than the not knowing, which will never end. — Paula Hawkins

At parties, he often holds her hand, even though they've been together years. They respect each other, they don't put each other down. — Paula Hawkins

green and cold and waiting for fingers of sunshine to creep up from the tracks and make them all come alive. — Paula Hawkins

I'm not romantic, and I don't like Christmas. — Paula Hawkins

If you want someone badly enough, you'll do anything to have them. — Paula Hawkins

...the past shooting out at me like sparrows for the hedgerow, startling and inescapable. — Paula Hawkins

It's not a photo I've seen before. — Paula Hawkins

The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mould yourself through the gaps. — Paula Hawkins

One of the lovely things about writing when nobody knows who you are is there's no expectation. — Paula Hawkins

People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it? — Paula Hawkins

I am no longer just a girl on the train, going back and forth without point or purpose. — Paula Hawkins

I have never understood how people can blithely disregard the damage they do by following their hearts. — Paula Hawkins

The last thing I need is rest. — Paula Hawkins

I can't reply because my mind has gone somewhere else entirely, and it's not — Paula Hawkins

I adore Kate Atkinson, her literary as well as her crime output. — Paula Hawkins

Blood starts to ooze from the wound. The girls on the other side of the carriage are watching me, their faces blank. — Paula Hawkins

He loves me so much, it makes me ache. I don't know how he does it. I would drive me mad. — Paula Hawkins

It's impossible to resist the kindness of strangers. — Paula Hawkins

I'd never realized, not until the last year or two of my life, how shaming it is to be pitied. — Paula Hawkins

And I've just got to let myself feel the pain, because if I don't, if I keep numbing it, it'll never really go away. — Paula Hawkins

No matter how much I love him, it won't be enough. — Paula Hawkins

know what it is to love someone and to say the most terrible things to them, in anger or anguish. — Paula Hawkins

I didn't even get upset. I was just astounded. And when I brought it up with Tom - calmly, matter-of-factly - he was just as baffled as I was. — Paula Hawkins

I quit! I feel so much better, as if anything is possible. I'm free! — Paula Hawkins

I'm well aware that there is no job more important than that of raising a child, but the problem is that it isn't valued. — Paula Hawkins

He is watching me, waiting for me to say something, to — Paula Hawkins

He loves me so much it makes me ache. — Paula Hawkins

Beckford is not a suicide spot. Beckford is a place to get rid of troublesome women. — Paula Hawkins

He's a master at it, making me feel as though everything is my fault, making me feel worthless. — Paula Hawkins

The police think I'm a rubbernecker. They think I'm a stalker, a nut-case, mentally unstable. — Paula Hawkins

He lies to himself the way he lies to me. He believes this. He actually believes that he was good to me. — Paula Hawkins

I just don't know whether he's the condemned man or the executioner. — Paula Hawkins

she finds it funny or whether she's trying to appease him. — Paula Hawkins

When I'm writing, I don't read much crime at all - you don't want to get distracted by other people's plots. — Paula Hawkins

Sometimes, I don't want to go anywhere, I think I'll be happy if I never have to set foot outside the house again. — Paula Hawkins

That's my fault, of course, because I behaved stupidly, like a child, because I didn't like feeling rejected. I need to learn to lose a little better. — Paula Hawkins

There are familiar faces on these trains, people I see every week, going to and fro. I recognize them and they probably recognize me. — Paula Hawkins

Maidstone," he says, "in Kent. But I moved — Paula Hawkins

Every time I hear footsteps on the steps, my heart rate goes up. Every time I hear the clacking of high heels, I am seized with trepidation. — Paula Hawkins

I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that — Paula Hawkins

It actually wasn't about her child at all, although the fact that the child never stops whinging did make her hard to love. — Paula Hawkins